The Cayman Islands Stock Exchange has delisted the two tranches of Munich Re’s $267.7m (€170m) catastrophe bond Queen Street Ltd. after the deal matured without any losses. Maturities are a feature of the first half of this year with a total of $4 billion of cat bonds scheduled to mature by the end of Q2.
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We’ve been hearing rumours in the market about potential catastrophe bond deals which are getting ready to be marketed to investors with sources insisting that at least one new cat bond will issue within the next month. Some of our sources have told us to expect a European windstorm bond as one of the issues. […]
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Munich Re is seeking to issue a new catastrophe bond under an Irish special purpose vehicle, Queen Street II Capital Ltd. This is Munich Re’s second Queen Street cat bond transaction, they issued €170m of catastrophe bonds under Queen Street Ltd. in March 2008. That was a three year deal so it’s expected that this new […]
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Having written in the last week about the volume of catastrophe bonds which are listed on the stock exchanges in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands I thought it would be a good idea to list them out by domicile for your information. We are going to include this information into a new catastrophe bond Deal […]
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Standard & Poor’s have amended a default table they use to help them rate insurance linked securitizations and catastrophe bonds. 11 cat bonds and six life mortality securitizations have been affected by the change. These default tables are amended occasionally to help S&P apply a rating that better reflects observed corporate defaults. Ratings on 8 […]
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